"Theodore is in the ground."--First sentence from The Alienist, by Caleb Carr.
quote:
I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop my candy!
- Sevro au Barca
quote:Burke, "In The Moon of Red Ponies"
It's easy to be facile about law enforcement. The truth is the good guys are understaffed, overworked, underfunded, and out-gunned. Most of the time the bad guys win, or if they do take a fall, it's because a wrecking ball swings into their lives for reasons that have nothing to do with jurisprudence. If you have ever been a victim of violent crime, or if you have been threatened by deviates or sadists-and by the latter I mean wakened by anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night, surveilled by people you've never seen before, forced to take public transportation because you're afraid to start your car in the morning-then you know that what I'm about to say is an absolute fact: You're on your own.
quote:I've probably only read the book start to finish in order twice, but I don't know how many times I've gotten hooked in by looking for one quote like the Levy Pants letter and ended up reading most of the book again.
I can't recall the exact quote, but it's from A Confedracy of Dunces. I've never laughed out loud in a book before, but that whole letter that ignatious wrote to the pants manufacturer was pure gold.